Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32994a24e3bcf51c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.2 KB Created: 2021-07-26 08:50:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c36f6cbc2e08c1db09fd23f25d773bae SHA-1: 556d199abcb28687830c6441cb3fd209e42c639e SHA-256: 32994a24e3bcf51c2882728aab8196256ffca7b56590e46a2cdb21ff45e4d67b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The document body is unreadable binary data, suggesting it's not intended for direct user interaction but rather to host malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04943ff0d7e9104fcef6475a1610a948/mojejunavalosobepitamorej.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sobinco.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nesisisojawabezijava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocchame.vn/app/webroot/img/uploads/files/buwipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160881a130514c---zebiteneputenokob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d811a9742e6---28298169474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etcad.net/np/upfile/file/77858910384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfdd5781a3b---427394911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cqilqi17hglgelm723cpbdhv0/17686163784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuxavusoxuvig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a29d5735da1---65277030077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dvh24p0cubcf29vu7hlt09flr5/situp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aatmicscience.org/asuserfiles/file/tizivesojipumunaxiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2ctrading.org/cms_upload/files/disakugokamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismolionsfarm.it/userfiles/files/dajin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1d8931ffd0c5cb09b5900c290794a13/56135229550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/326726f7ccb1a7ff97bcf35cb95d0f50/mofijomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntwbearing.com/UserFiles/File/miwamokovezodut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/031522097339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vannordenvastgoed.nl/userfiles/file/nesunofelakuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukierniabrzezinski.pl/www/artizam/fck/file/65219034709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=don%27t+mess+with+my+toot+toot+shirtPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010f59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F59 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 503ecb90bb9e716a9f35fcde69c39236b2322cd8bbc2329155b8917cf01eb57e
font_01_sfnt_off000126d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126D1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013ee3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EE3 16788 bytes
SHA-256: c0f44ab60898ccf569c0627b487a7fbe456ac102b54daba6cc639933611ecc2f